DENVER (CO)
The Aspen Times
By Colleen Slevin
The Associated Press
August 19, 2005
DENVER - A man who alleges he was sexually abused by a Denver priest who spent time in Aspen filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking more than $10 million from the Archdiocese of Denver, claiming officials knew about other allegations against the priest but only transferred him to new parishes.
Delbert Nielsen III, 53, of Carlsbad, N.M., alleges that Harold Robert White abused him during the 1960s. He is among 15 men who have told The Denver Post they were abused by White from the early 1960s through the early 1980s.
"It's just horrifying that the archdiocese would know this and continue to give him a fresh start with new victims," said Jeffrey Herman, Nielsen's attorney. Herman, based in Miami, specializes in representing sexual assault victims.
White, a former pastor at St. Mary Catholic Church in Aspen, was in Aspen from 1978 to 1981, according to a timeline published recently in The Denver Post.